I'm not really too clear what you are asking, but using the -f command line option just specifies a file - it dosn't tell make to change directories. If you want to do the work in another directory, you need to cd to the directory.
Instead of the -f of make you might want to use the -C option. This first changes the to the path '', and then calles make there.
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